{"id":8658,"date":"2025-04-02T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.everylearnereverywhere.org\/?p=8658"},"modified":"2025-04-02T08:33:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T13:33:24","slug":"how-this-biomedical-engineering-major-is-thinking-about-ai-tools-and-digital-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everylearnereverywhere.org\/es\/blog\/how-this-biomedical-engineering-major-is-thinking-about-ai-tools-and-digital-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"How This Biomedical Engineering Major Is Thinking About AI Tools and Digital Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Isra Hussain first started thinking about the potential of AI to support every learner during a high school internship assisting children who had attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and dyslexia. She worked on a curriculum to make learning easier for students dealing with these challenges, and she saw that AI tools like ChatGPT could prove useful by, for example, helping students work through problems to find solutions.<\/p>\n

Since then she entered Georgia Institute of Technology as a biomedical engineering major and she has continued thinking about the potential of AI in education. Like many current college students, she has had assignments that required her to use AI tools to complete tasks such as revising essays and completing physics problems.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it\u2019s regulated and used in the correct manner,\u201d she says, \u201cAI can be implemented in college settings to help people who have limited access to education or need help with certain aspects of learning.\u201d<\/p>\n

So it was a lucky accident when a friend introduced Hussain to a recent Georgia Tech biomed graduate, Eeman Uddin, who had been an intern with Every Learner Everywhere\u00ae in 2021<\/a>. Uddin suggested that the spring 2025 Every Learner Everywhere\u00ae student internship<\/a> would be a perfect fit for Hussain\u2019s passion: finding innovative ways to support people in overcoming challenges.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reason I\u2019m in biomedical engineering is that I want to help people in a different way than I would in the typical pre-med route,\u201d Hussain says. \u201cWhen I saw Every Learner was discussing artificial intelligence and curriculum, I thought it was a way to follow my motto of helping people in new, innovative ways.\u201d<\/p>\n

Creating an AI toolkit<\/h2>\n

The Alpharetta, GA native and her fellow spring 2025 interns are developing an AI toolkit that will connect instructors and students to platforms that can help them teach and learn more efficiently and effectively. Hussain and the other interns are seeking an easily accessible digital home for information about AI tools to expand on the research of the Every Learner summer and fall 2024 interns.<\/p>\n

Once the spring cohort establishes a hub for the material and finishes building the resource, the interns will seek insights from faculty members and students on their use of AI in coursework.<\/p>\n

Advancing accessibility in education<\/h2>\n

Because the use of AI is growing so rapidly, Hussain says it\u2019s imperative that every faculty member and student understand how best to use its tools<\/a>. She envisions an AI toolkit that becomes a widely used resource for instruction for a variety of subjects and for students of all abilities. She also hopes it will be easily adaptable \u2014 a living document that instructors and students continue to shape even after it\u2019s complete.<\/p>\n